noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun:

• chrysanthemum sake; rice wine infused with chrysanthemum, served on the Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9th, 9/9) - Food term ➜ 重陽
• strong mirin, typical of Kaga and Higo provinces - Food term ➜ 味醂【みりん】

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

adjectival noun / noun:

• liked; well-liked; favourite; favorite Antonym: 嫌い【きらい】
• in love (with); loved; romantically interested (in)

noun / adjectival noun:

• faddism; eccentricity
• the way one likes; (as) it suits one

noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick

noun:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to keep; to put aside (for somebody); to keep possession (usu. the ball in sports); to hold one's service (tennis)

noun:

• quipu; quippu

noun:

• dance hall; dance floor
• landing (stairs)
• leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau

noun:

• sign staked to a building's ridgepole at construction time stating the building's donor, builder, date, reason for construction, etc.

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人

expression:

• persevering through something difficult makes one stronger; whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger; slow but steady wins the race - proverb

noun:

• Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

expression / noun:

• pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

expression / adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow - four character idiom

expression:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reaping what you sow - idiom

noun:

• amicus curiae; friend of the court - Law term

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

noun:

• pilaf topped with bechemal or other cheese-based sauce, then oven baked - named after the Doria family of Genoa - From Italian "Doria"
• casserole dish dedicated to the Doria family, often with green, white and red colours

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to push out; to project; to stick out
• to hand over (e.g. to the police)